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HMS Erin

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
Pennant 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched21 Aug, 1033 
Commissioned, 1940 
Lost18 Jan, 1942 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in September 1933.
Taken over by the Admiralty in 1940.
Displacement: 394 tons.

Built as a "Football" Class trawler called Sheffield Wednesday and later sold to the Dutch who renamed her Erin. She was taken over by the Royal Navy and served with the Royal Naval Patrol Service.

HMT Erin (T/Lt. W.G. Swanston, RNVR) was sunk in Gibraltar harbour by a Spanish sabatour on 18 January 1942 along with HMS Honjo


Noteable events involving Erin include:

2 Dec, 1940
HMT Erin (A/Cdr J.O. Davies, RNR) picks up 19 survivors from the British merchant Jeanne M. that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-37 about 230 nautical miles north of Cape Roca, Portugal in position 39º19'N, 13º54'W.


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